Audiograft is an annual festival of Contemporary Music and Sound Art curated by the Sonic Art Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University.

Franz Hautzinger & Enrico Malatesta

Franz Hautzinger- Quartertone Trumpet.
Enrico Malatesta - Percussion.











Recorded on 05/07/2011 at Radio Študent by Samo Pavlica- Linč










15:26 (WAV)

Diatribes and Hannah Marshall

diatribes & hannah marshall

cyril bondi: bass drum, objects

d'incise: laptop, objects

hannah marshall: cello 

recorded at dampfzentrale, bern, ch

15.10.2010

mastering by christian weber

diatribes.dincise.net

WAV

Marko Karlovčec & Lawrence Williams: 5th July 2011

Marko Karlovčec & Lawrence Williams- alto saxophones

Recorded: 05.07.2011 in Radio Študent by Samo Pavlica- Linč




Live at Radio Student (23:22) (WAV)

four quartets and four soli

Angharad Davies - violin 

Julia Eckhardt - viola 

Dominic Lash - doublebass 

Stefan Thut - cello

The programme offers readings of four scores for open (string)quartet-settings and a quartet as a combination of four solo works. The setting of the traditional string quartet – two violins, viola and cello – is abandoned by replacing the second violin. Double bass player Dominic Lash joined the three string players Angharad Davies, Julia Eckhardt and Stefan Thut all active in the field of composed and improvised experimental music.
The idea of bringing together the four instrumentalists is inspired by Michael Pisaro’s cycle of solo-works ‘mind is moving’: the cycle allows for presentations as solos or in various combinations of the single pieces. A version for string trio was performed in Brussels at q-o2 in 2010 revealing previously unheard constellations.
The quartet scores cover various strategies combining precision and indeterminacy. Johnny Herbert’s piece minutes notes about a prescription for an action: the time of writing is still trackable in the score. John Lely defines durational aspects through the nature of the string instruments and their bows. Dominic Lash sets out a time grid in order to place actions that vary between processuality and stability. By the sparse use of signs Stefan Thut works with relatively determined systems organizing sound and silence. All of the pieces have in common to allow the sound of the environment accompanying the performed actions.


Johnny Herbert. Piece which is a time line of ideas for a piece - starting at 03:34 on Feb. 9th? (2011)
John Lely. String Trio or Quartet (2009/11)
Dominic Lash. for four (2011)
Stefan Thut. vier, 1-12 (2010)
Michael Pisaro. mind is moving #2,3,4,5 (1995/96)


July 3rd 2011
Säulenhalle Landhaus Solothurn (CH)

Download four quartets and four soli (aiff)

A Quiet Position - Edition one

 a quiet position - edition one - field fest by a quiet position

an online collection of tracks by artists appearing at the q-o2 / sounds of europe curated festival taking place in bruxelles, belgium - october 12th-15th 2011

featuring pieces by:

anne wellmer | manu holterbach | jason khan | annea lockwood | michael pisaro | els viaene | pauwel de buck | manfred werder

jez riley french | peter cusack | justin bennett | pali meursault | martiensgohome | mecha orga

Q-O2

Wolf Notes Issue 2

Michael Pisaro Prepared Piano (sketchbook)

Jason Kahn Notes on “Unheard Delhi”

Adam Sonderberg Tick Mark Studies: Ramones - Ramones (Sire, 1976)

Simon Reynell Thoughts on not being a musician

Fantastical Zoology By Jeph Jerman

Cover Image Trevor Simmons


How can we outsmart the sense of continuity
That eludes our steps as it prepares us
For ultimate wishful thinking once the mind has ended
Since this last thought both confines and uplifts us?
John Ashbery

An object, a space, an infinite number of measurements. Wolf Notes is an attempt at an open platform, each individual is free to refashion the composition devised in our approach, we initiate, they initiate. Found in juxtaposition, in harmony, at the base and summit of potentiality.

An openness is inescapable within any media, it is to be embraced, to be realised. All and any degree of interpretation will fall within myriad rooms of disposition. So to inhale and exhale, to move towards a positive sense of production, Wolf Notes in its totality is hope to the impossibility of maximum openness.

This work, and the works contained, are not objective fact, they are in a constant flux of interpretation, of feedback and feedforward, we respond by not responding by responding.

Download: Wolf Notes, Issue 2, June 2011